Chinese uses characters (zì) rather than an alphabet, with around 80,000 characters in current use. Each character combines a meaning component or radical with a pronunciation component. A single pronunciation can correspond to multiple characters, and characters can have multiple pronunciations. Tone is critical to distinguish meanings, with four main tones indicated by diacritics in pinyin romanization. Characters are combined into words without inflection for tense or other grammatical functions.
Chinese uses characters (zì) rather than an alphabet, with around 80,000 characters in current use. Each character combines a meaning component or radical with a pronunciation component. A single pronunciation can correspond to multiple characters, and characters can have multiple pronunciations. Tone is critical to distinguish meanings, with four main tones indicated by diacritics in pinyin romanization. Characters are combined into words without inflection for tense or other grammatical functions.
Chinese uses characters (zì) rather than an alphabet, with around 80,000 characters in current use. Each character combines a meaning component or radical with a pronunciation component. A single pronunciation can correspond to multiple characters, and characters can have multiple pronunciations. Tone is critical to distinguish meanings, with four main tones indicated by diacritics in pinyin romanization. Characters are combined into words without inflection for tense or other grammatical functions.
Chinese uses characters (zì) rather than an alphabet, with around 80,000 characters in current use. Each character combines a meaning component or radical with a pronunciation component. A single pronunciation can correspond to multiple characters, and characters can have multiple pronunciations. Tone is critical to distinguish meanings, with four main tones indicated by diacritics in pinyin romanization. Characters are combined into words without inflection for tense or other grammatical functions.
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What is Chinese?
character 什麼 是 中文 ?
shén me shì zhōng wén
pinyin + tone 字 zì/characters 1.No correct answer, around 80,000 characters. 2.414 sounds 3.One sound has many different characters. ex: shì= 是, 市,式,士,事,試…… Some characters has two or more different sounds. ex: 覺 : 睡覺 shuì jiào // 覺得 jué de 4.word: 天氣 (weather) ,生氣 (angry)
5.Each character has a radical. Ex: 你、好、家、熱
6.No tense: 是 shì= am, is, are, was, were, will be 7. 馬 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeW4Wgt9naQ( 英文版 ) 山 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxCla2UqPRc 拼音 pīn yīn/ pinyin 聲調 shēng diào/tone